This table displays the selected game’s current values on four BGG outcomes (UsersRated, Average, GeekRating, Weight) along with my predictive model(s) estimated values for where these games are likely to end up.
Published | ID | Name | Type | UserRatings | Average | GeekRating | Weight |
2021 | Current | 463 | 7.51 | 5.89 | 2.00 | ||
Estimated | 3,800 | 7.85 | 7.10 | 2.85 |
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Description |
Vienna Connection is a standalone game inspired by the game mechanisms of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. In this game, players take on the roles of CIA agents sent to Europe in 1977 during the Cold War to investigate the mysterious death of James Werner, an American citizen murdered in Vienna. |
Information on the game’s designers, artists, families, mechanics and categories from BGG.
Published | ID | Name | Publisher(s) | Designer(s) | Artist(s) | Categories | Families | Mechanics |
2021 | Portal Games | Jakub Poczęty | Deduction | Cities: Vienna (Austria) | Cooperative Game | |||
GaGa Games | Przemysław Rymer | Murder/Mystery | Components: Digital Hybrid – App/Website Required | Narrative Choice / Paragraph | ||||
Geekach Games | Ignacy Trzewiczek | Spies/Secret Agents | Decades: The 1970's | Point to Point Movement | ||||
IELLO | Jakub Łapot | Travel | Game: Detective – A Modern Crime Board Game (Portal Games) | Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game | ||||
Maldito Games | History: Cold War | Solo / Solitaire Game | ||||||
Pegasus Spiele | Players: Games with Solitaire Rules | Storytelling | ||||||
Pendragon Game Studio | ||||||||
For the full profile of the selected game, click on the links in the table or go to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299255
For each of the predictions above, I used models that were trained on historical boardgamegeek data in order to predict the selected game. How did the model(s) arrive at their predictions? The following plot displays Shapley values to indicate what features were most influential for the model’s predictions. Anything in blue increased the model’s predictions, anything in red decreased the model’s predictions.
What games are similar to Vienna Connection? I compare the selected game to every other game on boardgamegeek based on its mechanics, playing time, complexity, and game type. The tables below display the games which had the most similar data to Vienna Connection. The reported similarity is the cosine similarity between the selected game and all other games published before 2021.
This similarity score ranges from -1 to 1, where similarity of 1 indicates that games are exactly identical (a game will have a score of 1 with itself).
Note: This analysis does not look at a game’s ratings on BGG, publisher, artist, or designer - it focuses on finding similar games based on how they play, not how they are rated or by their theme.
The table below displays games with the most similar data to Vienna Connection. Click on a game’s ID or Name to go straight to its profile on boardgamegeek.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 1.00 | 5.89 | 7.51 | 2.85 | 463 | ||
1 | 1982 | Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases | 0.93 | 7.47 | 7.69 | 2.67 | 19,007 | |
2 | 2018 | 0.92 | 7.32 | 7.79 | 2.74 | 8,754 | ||
3 | 2016 | 0.92 | 6.50 | 7.40 | 2.18 | 2,078 | ||
4 | 2018 | 0.91 | 7.32 | 7.70 | 2.08 | 18,202 | ||
5 | 2020 | 0.90 | 5.95 | 7.02 | 2.05 | 799 | ||
6 | 1985 | 0.90 | 5.63 | 7.55 | 3.00 | 143 | ||
7 | 2016 | Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures | 0.88 | 7.07 | 7.69 | 2.20 | 4,930 | |
8 | 2020 | 0.87 | 5.58 | 7.05 | 2.00 | 109 | ||
9 | 2009 | 0.87 | 6.92 | 7.18 | 2.16 | 12,120 | ||
10 | 2020 | 0.86 | 6.20 | 7.71 | 2.17 | 827 | ||
11 | 2020 | 0.86 | 5.56 | 7.26 | 1.00 | 62 | ||
12 | 2018 | 0.85 | 5.53 | 6.49 | 2.50 | 45 | ||
13 | 2017 | 0.83 | 6.54 | 7.27 | 1.22 | 2,725 | ||
14 | 2015 | 0.82 | 7.72 | 8.58 | 4.26 | 8,359 | ||
15 | 2020 | 0.81 | 5.58 | 7.04 | 1.67 | 88 | ||
16 | 2012 | 0.81 | 6.21 | 6.97 | 2.49 | 1,636 | ||
17 | 2020 | 0.81 | 7.29 | 7.68 | 1.13 | 8,520 | ||
18 | 2015 | 0.81 | 5.53 | 7.21 | 3.00 | 36 | ||
19 | 2019 | 0.81 | 5.80 | 7.35 | 3.19 | 417 | ||
20 | 2015 | 0.81 | 5.73 | 7.03 | 2.12 | 347 | ||
21 | 2019 | 0.81 | 5.69 | 7.48 | 3.25 | 240 | ||
22 | 2017 | 0.80 | 7.36 | 7.80 | 3.30 | 10,397 | ||
23 | 2020 | 0.80 | 5.61 | 8.29 | 2.00 | 75 | ||
24 | 2019 | 0.80 | 5.89 | 8.34 | 2.64 | 293 | ||
25 | 1995 | 0.80 | 5.59 | 7.54 | 3.10 | 82 |
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What games are similar to Vienna Connection while also being highly rated by the boardgamegeek community? In this table I multiply every neighboring game’s similarity score by its GeekRating. The resulting score is an attempt to balance these two quantities.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Score | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 5.89 | 1.00 | 5.89 | 7.51 | 2.85 | 463 | ||
1 | 1982 | Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases | 6.94 | 0.93 | 7.47 | 7.69 | 2.67 | 19,007 | |
2 | 2018 | 6.77 | 0.92 | 7.32 | 7.79 | 2.74 | 8,754 | ||
3 | 2018 | 6.65 | 0.91 | 7.32 | 7.70 | 2.08 | 18,202 | ||
4 | 2015 | 6.29 | 0.82 | 7.72 | 8.58 | 4.26 | 8,359 | ||
5 | 2016 | Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures | 6.21 | 0.88 | 7.07 | 7.69 | 2.20 | 4,930 | |
6 | 2017 | 6.09 | 0.79 | 7.69 | 8.01 | 2.90 | 19,514 | ||
7 | 2009 | 6.00 | 0.87 | 6.92 | 7.18 | 2.16 | 12,120 | ||
8 | 2016 | 5.98 | 0.92 | 6.50 | 7.40 | 2.18 | 2,078 | ||
9 | 2019 | 5.93 | 0.78 | 7.59 | 8.22 | 3.30 | 8,851 | ||
10 | 2017 | 5.91 | 0.80 | 7.36 | 7.80 | 3.30 | 10,397 | ||
11 | 2020 | 5.90 | 0.81 | 7.29 | 7.68 | 1.13 | 8,520 | ||
12 | 2017 | 5.41 | 0.83 | 6.54 | 7.27 | 1.22 | 2,725 | ||
13 | 2020 | 5.34 | 0.90 | 5.95 | 7.02 | 2.05 | 799 | ||
14 | 2005 | 5.34 | 0.76 | 7.05 | 7.25 | 3.58 | 37,887 | ||
15 | 2020 | 5.31 | 0.86 | 6.20 | 7.71 | 2.17 | 827 | ||
16 | 2013 | 5.26 | 0.70 | 7.54 | 7.78 | 3.32 | 32,251 | ||
17 | 2018 | 5.25 | 0.79 | 6.64 | 7.65 | 3.18 | 2,295 | ||
18 | 2020 | 5.12 | 0.76 | 6.71 | 7.88 | 2.12 | 2,310 | ||
19 | 1985 | 5.04 | 0.90 | 5.63 | 7.55 | 3.00 | 143 | ||
20 | 2012 | 5.03 | 0.81 | 6.21 | 6.97 | 2.49 | 1,636 | ||
21 | 2017 | 4.97 | 0.76 | 6.54 | 7.18 | 2.13 | 2,818 | ||
22 | 2017 | 4.96 | 0.79 | 6.28 | 8.24 | 3.56 | 964 | ||
23 | 2020 | 4.89 | 0.74 | 6.63 | 8.04 | 3.45 | 1,960 | ||
24 | 2017 | Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Carlton House & Queen's Park | 4.87 | 0.77 | 6.35 | 7.90 | 2.38 | 991 | |
25 | 2020 | 4.86 | 0.87 | 5.58 | 7.05 | 2.00 | 109 |
I first ran a dimension reduction method (PCA) to identify the main points of variation for games on BGG. The first 25 components explained roughly 50% of the overall variation in the dataset, so I computed the cosine similarity between every game’s score on these 25 components.
This plotscores are based on 25 principal components - the next table displays the selected game and its neighbors profiles on each of these components.